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19 March 2018

Slovakia's Prime Minister-designate Peter Pellegrini on Monday presented his cabinet, choosing a non-partisan official for interior minister in a bid to quell a public backlash triggered by the murder of a journalist probing corruption. ...

16 March 2018

An Istanbul court late Friday ordered the conditional release of a prominent Turkish journalist jailed in the wake of the July 2016 failed coup following an earlier decision by the country's top constitutional body, state media said. ...

16 March 2018

After taking a stand in support of Palestinians and migrants, British street artist Banksy is now showing solidarity with imprisoned Turkish-Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Dogan with a giant mural in Manhattan. ...

16 March 2018

Turkey's top constitutional body on Friday ruled for the second time that the rights of a prominent Turkish journalist jailed in the wake of the failed coup had been violated while in detention, state media said. ...

15 March 2018

Slovakia's president on Thursday asked Deputy Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini to form a new government after accepting the premier's resignation following a public backlash over an investigative journalist's murder. ...

15 March 2018

Slovakia's president has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico, who offered to step down after facing a public backlash over the murder of a journalist, a junior partner in the ruling coalition said Thursday. ...